Klarinet Archive - Posting 000112.txt from 2004/11

From: <tony-w@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] Finzi concerto
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 05:12:45 -0500

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From: dnleeson <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:26 AM
Subject: [kl] Finzi concerto

> The BBC station that had Tony's wonderful performance of 622 now
> is presenting the Finzi concerto as played by Michael Collins.
> He is a very gifted player.

Michael Collins has had a lot of exposure on BBC radio. Yes he is indeed a
fine player, but there are a lot of fine players in this country (UK) in
addition to other countries. I wrote to the BBC 3 or 4 years ago trying to
explain that we do not wish to hear the *same* players continuously. They
surely have a responsibility to give others the deserving opportunity of, if
not the same air time, then some time. They, do, but there was a bias
towards M.C. at that time, and it is probably still unbalanced somewhat. We
hear an enormous amount of different violinists, pianists and vocalists, but
it seems that other orchestral sections do not the same amount of diverse
selection. With a more cosmopolitan selection of players, we not only get to
hear a bigger selection of standard repertoire and new music, but we hear
about the musicians themselves also, and their lives and studies etc.
I`m bored with M.C.`s life and history, if not quite so much his playing, so
I explained this in my letter, and that we must have at least 250 - 350
professional players over here of first rate ability. We have probably
heard between 5 and 10 different players in the last 12 months, and we`ll no
doubt hear the same players again next year. An allocated amount of
scheduled air time for clarinettists` is no excuse.
I did not recieve a reply.
Tony W.

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